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TX3ZE POST.
~W BDIf I5BD AY. I) E( !• 1 m7 187R
a. L. HICKS,
EDITOR .VNI) PROPRIETOR.
!K. /*, //(fcJfc* i* the regular agent for th f
!‘tST in John non eounty, authorized to re-
t'-ivt nnhoerli>ti»nn, reeeiyt for the mine, and
11 nuke, rantrneU for ndtcrtUlng. AU due*
u'nnld he mid to him.
Negro Siitl'nigo Threatened.
Wiion tlio question of giving the
(fight of suffrage to the liberated
f>!.ivc< of the South was being ugita-
< • I in the North immediately after
t'm war, there wore far-seeing Htates-
liimin the Uopnhhcan party who
o.iposed it for various reasons, but
n duly on the ground that they fore-
a i.v such a stop would result in in-
twa-iiiig the delegation of the South*
0 ii Domoorimy in Congress. They
k »ew tlmt the intelligence, thrift
s! id manhood of the South would
i mor or later assort its supremacy
over the carpetbag rule of Radical*
iiiU. They knew that the social
;i/j*amid could not long bo made to
s.and upon its apex. Hut the covin-
xels tit tlic wise were not listened to
I: that day of revolutionary and un-
c mstitiiti uml proceedings. The
L jjmblicuii party was led then as
h >w bv its worst mon, and under
1 heir lead the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth amendments were embodied
i v the Constitution. It was a bitter
pill to the South, but she was gagged
u.vl forced to swallow it. Hoeing
til it we could not resist it, wo deter
mined to make tlio bust of it, coll
uding ourselves with the belief that
i .'to time would soon come when the
li 'publicans would rue the day they
f cued the measure upon Us. That
ti.no line now come, and us often
predicted, the Radical party is mak-
v tg an effort to take from l ho nogro
his right to vote. On I ho Dth instr
iilvpio made a long and elaborately
prepared speocli looking to this end,
i-'he principal point in his speech
was to show t hat the white man of
the South—the man who fought in
t ho rebel army has more than twice
ns much influence in the govern
iiottt as the Northern man, who
f night to sustain the union, lie
cliowod that it only takes 00,000
.sitemen iu Georgia or Alabama to
c.ad a. moniker to Congress, whereas
i i New York or Pennsylvania it ro-
<; .ires IBs},000.
It is said that the negroes will be
i ulueed to hold a convention and
a<k tlmt their autfrugo he taken
away, in 4# much as it only adds to
(lie strength of tlmir political one-
odes,. Hut the negroes, having
learned the value of their votes will
never consent to anything of the
nort,
TluOiortlievii states can not oarry an
iimeiidnieut to the Constitution
ivithout; the concurrence of some of
I !io southern stales; and nono of the
tnuthorn sbites will over agree to
nave itB delegation in Congress our-
,ailed by depriving the colored peo-
j lo t»t the right to vote.
Mount Knows the Ropes.
Post master tlonoml Key has boon
frying a little game of bulldozing on
i ol. Blount, but said P. M. G.
counted without his boat, us appears
>y the following remarks from the
v ..tlantn Constitution:^
“Mr. Blount controls, nt least,
lemporarily, tlio postal oars of the
count ry, As u member of the ap
propriation ooimnittce> ho Jius
».Marge of tlio making up of the,post*
oilloo appropriation bill. The post-
jaaster-goueral deliberately decided
to so coiiduot the ni.uvay part of the
postal service us to create a doUeien-
ey on ’ lmV account of nearly half a
milium dollars, lie now declares that
jt congress does not by tho tlrst day
».f January appropriate money to
.vipo out the delloieney, ho will order
iho ivmoynl of the postal tiara on nil
the miliiiads. This would bo very
nod indml, but Mr. Blount does not
. eem to be alurmod by Mr. Key’s
i limits, He Disposes to projmre’ a
a defleieney bul in his own time and
not at the nictation of any man in or
Min of tlio office. Mr. Key’s tumbles
sprang from his determination to
conduct Hie service regardless of up*
jiftipruitions.”
Ceil. Wade Hampton’s leg was .mi*
putaunl below the knee on the 10th
iust, On the same day lie was elect*
ted to tho Uni ml States Senate.
Before the electiou took place a let*
ter from < v b*v. Hampton was read
rating that lie was not a candidate;
ml that lie thought the ofliee one
,iuit should neither bo sought nor de
clined,
The Dublin Academy.
The exorcises of this school will
close on next Friday for a recess of
two or three weeks. The school
during the post term has been full,
and the progress of the scholars
rapid. We arc glad to learn that a
project is on foot to enlarge the
Academy building and'adapt it fully
to the requirements of modern in
struction. Such a thing ought to lie
doue with all possible baste. None
but teueborH of cxi»crienco know how
much more effective a live toucher s
work is when the school house and
appliances conform to tho require
ments qf the instructor’s task. A
little money judiciously spent on the
Acmlemy would add greatly to tho
effectiveness of tho teacher’s efforts
in lielmlf of the pupils, and would
came hack to you with interest m
the shape of a more rapid mlvunco of
your children in their studies. Their
education will thus lie bettor and
sooner accomplished, and both time
and money saved. Again, the Acad
emy ought to bo enlarged to accom
modate such a school us Col. Ram
say’s reputation as a teacher would
bring to Dublin.
In the nuun time we can say to
those who expect to solid their cbil-
itrcn to school next year and desire
to place them under tho best of in
struction, tlmt no better school nan
bo found in the country than the
Dublin Academy. The principal is
a man of profound scholarship, thor
oughly versed in all tho modern
methods of instruction, of deep piety
arid eminently qualified, not only to
give text-book instruction, but. to
develop character, and inspire tlio
youth under his charge with high
and holy purposes in life.
We clip the following two items
from tho Swainsboro Ilerahl:
Home weeks age, Mr. J. R. Moor
ing loaned a buggy to James Wil
liams, colored, alius Jam s Macon,
and somo linlf dozen other names
under which he travelled at pleas
ure. .Williams is a blacksmith, and
was to use tho buggy in travelling
over tile county doing work, but was
not’to carry it out of the county.
After buying a horso on a credit and
borrowing all the money and watches
ho could got, he left the county.
Mr. Mooring followed him to
Waynesboro wlnnc he recovered tho
buggy, after considerable trouble
and expense. Mr. Mooring desires
ui} to return thanks to Mr. Lovett
a.id others for kindness rendered
him while in Waynesboro.
Wo learn that t he turpentine dis
tillery located near Huininertowu
was burned on Friday morning hist.
Wo have not boon able to learn
the particulars.
Since writing the above we learn
that tlio tiro was accidental, being
causod by lotting off tho hot rosin
into a green barrel. All the rosin
and spirits were saved, only a few
barrels of raw turpontino being con
sumed in the blaze. The larger of
tho two stills is entirely ruined.
Tlio other will bo repaired. The
distillery is tho property of Mr. J:
II. Ayocock. Loss about, §000.
Mr. R, B. 11. Walters, of Johnson
county oume into our office one day
lust, week and told us of u fox race
he luid engaged in tlmt. was a little
peculiar. The nice took place near
the place of Mr. James Thompson
in this county, Mr. Thompson and
sou, Mr. Bralwoll Wynn and son,
mid Mr. Walters following the six
dogs in hot pursuit of Reynard.
Tho fox was jumped about 8 o’elook
on Wednesday night of last, wook,
and led the hunters a lively chase for
about six hours, making a circuit of
t.3ii or twelve miles four successive
times. The nice was close and ex
citing, and several times Reynard
was seen by the hunters but he was
liot caught, mid our informant told
ns a hunter’s tale instead of showing
a fox’s tail.—Wilkinson Appeal.
The city council of Atlanta an
nounce their readiness to donate the
grounds und build as good a capital
as the one in Milledgovillo whenever
the legislature demands it.
The legislature udjourned on tho
13th inst. to meet again in July.
HotmtorGordon nml the City of
Culcha*
New York World.
Senator Gordon will probably lec
ture in Boston during the holidays
for the benefit of a charitable so
ciety.
How to Keep Candidate* Quiet.
New York World,
It 1ms always lw?en a troublesome
thing for the friends of conspicuous
candidates for high offices, partic
ularly the Presidency, to keep their
man in a condition of becoming
stillness and humility until the time
comes to produce them. The most
effective method of treating yonr
candidates "is undoubtedly• to beat
him on the head until lie is insensi
ble, but this is not practicable in
most cases' Tt lias been found tlmt
the eoneusBion necessary to keep a
candidate insensible for u period of
eighteen months, the average term
of incubation before be can pip the
shell at a nominating convention, is
apt to react unfavorably upon his
general health. Anaelhotics are lia
ble to the same objection, and the
exhibition of alcoholic stimulants is
apt to defeat its own purpose by.
making the man loquacious instead
of reticent. Various devices have
bdcii tried, one of the most, success
ful being tlmt adopted in the case of
Marrisom, who was secluded iujhc
wilderness of Indiana before the
clcctioh, supplied with hard eider
and sedulously deprived of writing
materials. With the increasing pop
ulation und facility of communica
tion this simple unil primitive meth
od is no longer possible within our
own borders, and a dosort island or a
lonely dungeon lo which candidates
for the Presidency might be consign
ed at .-the moment of cardidaey and
kept until the voters were counted
is a want which has kmg been felt
by political managers. Tho Repub
lican managers have hit upon a neat
and ingenious adaption of this plan
in the case of General Grant. It is
now generally admitted that Gener
al Grant went to Europe some
months too soon. Europe is a toler
ably large continent, but it is not
unbounded and it has not proved
easy to lose General Grant in it as
completely as could be wished. It is
necessary to kcop a candidate hidden
and yet in readiness to he at any
time revealed, like a live fish in tow
with a string through his, gills.
General Grant has como to the sur
face several times on his own account,
ami floundered and gurgled concern
ing the silver question and the* mil
itary history of the war in a manner
ealciildteirto give pain' to His friends.
They are now able to send him to a
region Wliere the interviewer does
lfot walk at midnight, nor the delega
tion swoop at midday, where his on
ly companions will be incurious na
val offieors and consuls who will feel
tliemselvos to totter on their stools
wiion ho enters tlioir offices. ITe is
in no danger of h«dng drawn by those
persons into injurious committals,
and ho will enter into the canvass of
1880 as if he had been born at the
beginning of it—a condition the
most enviable which can fall to the
lot of any camliddato. And all this
lias bocu done without tho necessity
of calling upon a .single commit,to
man or a single contractor to put his
lmnd in his pocket. A grateful
country is to semi him at its own ex
pense to a region where it will be
unable to examine him until the
tinier comes for it to show its grati
tude to him for a third time. And
this strok > of p »lioy is to b.i abetted
by tho misguidrd Mr. ILiyes, tho in
tensity of whoso own desire to bo .he
next President can be only faintly es
timated from his pubjio declaration,
at a time when no kiud friend had
shipped him on a frigate or sunk
him in a well, tlmt ho would not
think of it under any circumstances.
It was Goneral Grant, now to be
shipped around tho world like a cask
of Madcara, and like it not to be
tapped until his return, who likmu d
tho Democratic party to a covf-whioh
kicked over the milk-pail whenever
she had made a fair premise of fill
ing it. We feel the forco of this sim
ilitude tho more keouly as wo regard
the astuteness of the method by.
whicli its author has been put under
bonds of many months to hold the
peace, while tho conspicuous candi
dates of tho Democracy are standing
upon high pluoes and in the sun
shine, with free access to pons, ink
and paper, with no kiud gags in
their mouths and no frioudly frigate
to carry them where their commit
tals eau only ho made to the hospit
able and iueomtmtnicutivc sea.
Tho march of the English troop3
over the Afghan territory seems to
lie a sort of military promenade, and
still Russia stands aloof.
Tilden at Work.
N. Yf Tribute.
Gan it be that Tilden has already
begun to “work up” the solid south
for 1880. There are a good many,
suspicions outgiyings which make it
look its if lie had. Leading southern
statesmen like Hill and Gordon arc
openly for him, and in every south
ern state there are influential politi
cians who say they arc in favor of
the best man in 1880, and who im
mediately add that they don't bel'eve
any of the charges against Tilden.
The south sees that success without
New York is impossible, and if Til
den can convince them that if he
can’t curry Now York no other dem
ocrat can, he is sure of their solid
support. It looks now as if he were
slowly distilling a belief of that sort
into the southern mind. He did it
in 1876, and he therefore knows how
.to go to work to do it again.
Tlie Bureaus Should Stand.
Mucou Telegraph.
We congratulate the people tlmt
so far the geological and agricultural
departments, and the law requiring
careful analysis of fertilizers, remain
intact. If the report was well found
ed, that these essential departments
in the economy of our state govern
ment are seriously endangered, wc
should feel tempted to call upon the
people of every county to hold pri
mary meetings during the coining
spring and summer, and, by their
pronounced utterances, show tlmt
they are utterly opposed to a policy
so short-sighted and suicidal. In
the name of common sense, is every
landmark of real progress in the past
to be swept away under the thin and
sordid guise of retrenchment? As
well seek to nourish and improve the
Iranian frame by a regimen amounting
to slow starvation.
The Albany Argus says: “The Re
publicans have arranged for a debate
on tho Southern question, to be inr-
diately followed by u national con
vention of colored men to memoral-
izo Congress to take away tlio repre
sentation in Congress which is based
upon colored population of tlio va
rious States of the Union The col
ored men whom the Republicans can
adjust to such uses will be those who
have forfeited their right to vote hy
felonies. But the sign idea nee of
the thing is that the bloody shirt is
all the issue the Radicals have; they
have no evidence ti make info a pole
to hang that on. and the attempt to
reorganize tho policy of hate is just
wlmt the business men of the North
will resent. Moreover, the Repub
licans arc getting tired of the negro
in politics and want to get him • nt,.
because lie votes, as a rule, against
them now. The next move of the
Republican loaders will bo bo to re
peal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to tho Constitution.
They want to de-negroize politics or
do-politiealizo tho negro, because
their investmoiu. in him brings in no
profits. But they will not be accom
modated.”
The Grant Conspiracy.
Chicago Times.
The proposed receptions have no
connection whatever with a desire to
do Grant personal honor. They are
purely political. They are a part of
the mortifying farce which has been
in progress in the old world ever
since Grunt landed on it shores.
There Grant has never receivod a
single personal compliment. Every
reception given hjm, ! every honor of
which he has boon, the recipient,
have been paid to the country, of
which, as ox-prosidont, he was, to
some extent, tho representative.
There is not a single city of any ac
count which he has visited in which,
in private, he has failed to be the
subject of endless ridicule and car
icature. Everywhere his boorish
manners, his luck of knowledge of
the ordiinuryforms of polite society,
his sullen silence, and his intomper-
anco have made him a m.*ro marked
character than even his position as
an ex-president and an ex-general.
Tho reports about his having been
offered tho Bulgarian throne arc sim
ply silly lies, invented to give him
oonsequonco on this side tho water,
and give him an impotus for the
presidential nomination. King of
Bulgaria! Grant could not, to-day,
secure the position of constable on
the London polioe force. He hasn’t
the sobriety, tho patience, the dig
nity, that are essential to the posi
tion,
Has a Poor Opinion of the G. A.
GrxHip.Ncws.
The Georgia Jdgisluthre has qbw
been in session more than thirty
days, and wc will wager a penny,
that the wisest member in the body
can not point out five bills that have
passed both houses that will benefit
the people of Georgia one cent.
What Blaine Should Discuss.
Albuny Argus.
A great deal of unnecessary atten
tion is paid, by the telegraph to what
lllainq is expected to say or. not to
say next Monday. The thing Blaine
should confine himself to is the
Mulligan correspondence. The peo
ple do not care what lie says or does
not suv on other things, so long as
ho dodges that.
Gov Tilden Anxious.
New Ilmen Register.
Governor Tilden is anxious to have
the ciphei dispatches thoroughly in
vestigated, and even urges that the
matter be brought up without further
delay. With a quarter of a million
majority of voters at his back, there
was no need for him to try to steal his
election
. Dividing the Burden,.
Terre Haute Express.
The New York Sun thinks that
the people would save money if they
could work Grant olf on Bulgaria,
About the best we can hope for is
that Bulgaria will divide the burden.
Grant would doubtless be satisfied h
he could be King of the United
States and emperor of Bulgaria.
.Johnson Items.}
Col. A. F. Daley of 'Wrightsville
and Miss Willie Howard of Atlanta
were married lust Thursday.
I)r. J. W. Flanders has finished
his house in Wrightsville at lust.
Mr Bush and Mr. Eight, propose
the name of Daniel Neil for coroner
at the next election.
Who was it ran the buzzards off of
a live sheep in Dennis Ivea’s planta
tion at Holmes Cross Roads ?
One day last week a hawk canglil
a bird in Wrightsville and as the
hawk left Mr. Williams saw a cal
following the hawk. He took a gun
and taking the same direction had
proceeded about one hundred yard,
wheii ho met the cat coming bacl<
with the bird.
Mr. Janies Meadows and Miss Ce
lia Tison of Johnson county were
married last week.
Col. Daley received something bv
mail Hatnrrlav which we would all
like to see. Will voushow it Aleck;
The Strutting House.
TOOMSBORO GA.
0. II. L. STKITBING Proprietor
Thanking the Public for their libe
ral patronage m the past. I respectfully
ask n continuance of the same, . My hou-'e
is near tlio Depot and llrM-cia.-.s' in all
its appointments
Bood Conveyance
always in readiness to accommodate' the
Travelling Public who may wish to go
from Toomsboro to Dublin or any other
point.
The Excelsior News.
The Excelsior News is published every
Friday at Excelsior, Bulloch Co., 0a., in
the interest of the Pintg Woods, hy Rev,
YY r . L. Geiger. The paper is titled with
good, religious, edueatioual, temperance
and geuend news articles prepared express
ly for its columus.
In addition to its usual interesting origi
nal matter, the publication of a sum'll prize
story,
' DURWARD BELMONT;
OR,
THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION,
MARIE DWAL,
a pious, uud gifted young lady of the piney
woods, will be commenced in its columns
on Friday, Jan. 3d, 1879. This story will
run through several mouths, after which
other stories of interest will follow.
Every family in the pincy woods should
read the Excelssor News.
Now is the time to subscribe in order to
commence with the new year.
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Address, W. L. Geiger.
- Editor and Proprietor
• Red Branch, Bulloch County Ga.
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ATLANTA DAILY CONSTITU
TION.
>Y e have few promises to make for The
Constitution for 1879. The paper speaks
for itself, and upon that ground the mana
gers offer it to the public as the best, the
brightest, the newsiest, and the most com
plete daily journal published in the south.
This is the verdict of our renders, and Iho
verdict of the most critical of our excliahir
es, some of whose opinions we take pleasure
in presenting below.
r I lie managers will be pardoned for briefly
alluding to some of the features which
liave given The Constitution prominence
among southern papers.
1. It prints all the news, both by mail
and telegraph.
II Its telegraphic service is fuller than
that of any other Georgia paper—its spe
cial dispatches pluciiig it upon a footing,
so far ns (lie news is concerned, with llio
metropolitan journals.
HI. Its compilation of the news by mail
is tlie freshest of the best., comprising
everything of interest in the current news
paper literature of the day.
IV. Its editorial department is full,
bright and \ivacious-, and its paragraphs
and opinions are more widely quoted Hum
those of any other southern journal. It
discusses all questions of public interest,
and touches upon all current themes.
V. “Bill Arp,” the most genial of hu
morists, will continue to contribute 16 its
columns. “Old Si” and “Uncle Hcmus”
will work in their special Acids, and will
furnish fun, both in prose and verse.
VI. It is a complete news, family ami
agricultural journal. It is edited with tlie
grcateit euro, and its columns contain
everything of interest in the domain of
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VII. In addition to these, full reports of
the supreme court mid of the proceedings
of tin; general assembly, will be published,
and no pains will be spared to keep the
paper up to its present slamlard. * -•>
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Democrat.
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has long been the be.-t, mw- pal er ,u ti;o
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thelir.-t half-dozen southern newspapers.—
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